Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751689Ab3IRNvK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:51:10 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com ([209.85.217.182]:36851 "EHLO mail-lb0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751218Ab3IRNvI (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:51:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130918102701.GJ14246@waldemar-brodkorb.de> References: <20130918102701.GJ14246@waldemar-brodkorb.de> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:51:03 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: problem booting linux with qemu-system-arm -M spitz From: Andrea Adami To: Waldemar Brodkorb Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1433 Lines: 43 On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > Hi Kernel hackers, > > I am trying to run Linux on Qemu/arm emulator with machine type > spitz. In the past this worked fine. > Now with Linux version 3.9.11 it does not boot anymore. > (blank screen, no kernel messages) > > I used git bisect to find the commit, which breaks the boot: > commit 4e8ee7de227e3ab9a72040b448ad728c5428a042 > Author: Will Deacon > Date: Wed Nov 23 12:26:25 2011 +0000 > > I am using Qemu 1.6.0 on a Debian/x86_64 host. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > Waldemar > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel On real hardware I see the same breakage after 3.2. Marko diagnosed it and there is a pending patch: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-September/198444.html There is indeed some MMU-related issue. Probably the function could be called elsewhere during machine init but I'm not so high in the food chain to dare to touch arm boot code ;) Regards Andrea -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/